Marquis Webb Quotes (16 Quotes)

I don't think it's a distraction. It's something he addressed, but we have to continue to keep focused throughout these last four games. It's very important to put this behind us and take care of our business.

I think it's going to be an improvement for our team, putting me out there on the wing, getting more shots. That's what I've been working on all summer, not just to take shots but to make shots, and knowing that this team is (relying) on me to produce.

It's definitely a step backwards because we didn't take care of home-court advantage. St. John's came in here and stole one from us.

I know playing in the Big East, every night you're going to have to come out and compete. There's not one game that you can come out here and lollygag. You got to be on your 'A' game every night, because if you're not you can mess around and get crushed.

Eventually, when it's all said and done, people will eventually look at me as being one of the best defensive players. I don't care about people recognizing what I do now because in the end people will recognize how good a defender I am.

We're coming out and working well together. Everyday we're trying to get better and we're understanding how to win games now.

Coach (Waters) was himself. He came in here and said, 'Guys, you did it.' That was one of our goals in the beginning of the season, to make it to the Big East tournament, and just coming in here and playing as hard as we did allowed us to do that.

In tournament play, anything is possible. Anybody can get upset at any time. That's what we're looking forward to doing.

I tried to make it difficult for him to post up.

(Assistant) coach (Chip) Wilde does a good job preparing the scouting report by giving all the players DVDs to watch of an opposing team. I'll take it home and watch it for about a half-hour just so I have a better idea what the other guy likes to do.

We didn't get stops on defense. That's what it boils down to. The big man (Hibbert) scored at will down there.

They definitely feel they can beat us, especially at home. Their record says they haven't won a game in the Big East, but they've been close with everybody so you know they're not going to give up.

We gotta hit the glass, today we got out-rebounded by Pittsburgh and on the road you have to rebound and control the tempo. We got to go on the road and play tough and not let teams out-rebound us.

I was really focused. I shot the ball real well. I became really confident. Everyone had a hand in this victory.

When you come home you have to take care of business. You can't just continue to let teams come in and steal games from you.

Today, we didn't execute in the last minutes of the game. I don't think it's the arena or what Seton Hall did, it's what we didn't do on the offensive end.